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14.1) "gzip" Command


There are a number of reasons why you may want to make your files smaller (but not lose any data). You may want to store your unused files away to be used later, or you may want to decrease your file size and keep your disk usage low, or you may be transferring files from one computer to another and you want to make it transfer faster. For all of these purposes and more, you can compress files to be a smaller size by using the gzip command.